ELI Summer School 2025

TIMETABLE

Monday - August 25, 2025

Keynote talk, ELI ERIC overview, laser technology

10:00 - 10:30 Welcome word and ELI ERIC overview Allen Weeks (ELI ERIC Director General)

10:00 - 10:30 Programme overview Anna Zymaková (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic) Introduction to softskill activities Alexandra Schmidli (ELI ERIC)

11:00 - 12:00 KEYNOTE TALK Donna Strickland, Nobel Prize laureate (University of Waterloo-Canada)

12:00-13:00 / Lunch break

13:00-14:00  Tutorial: Oscillators

14:00-14:15 / Break

14:15-15:30 Tutorial: Short pulse amplification Clara Saraceno, (Ruhr-Universität Bochum-Germany)

15:15-15:30 / Break

15:30-16:30 Tutorial: Spatial-temporal coupling

16:30-17:10 ELI-ERIC lasers Tyler Green (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

17:10-18:00 Career Consulting session

18:00-20:00 Ice breaking event (ELI-barn)

Tuesday - August 26, 2025

High Harmonic Generation

9:00 - 10:00 High Harmonic Generation, theory and ELI technologies Katalin Varju (ELI ERIC, ALPS facility-Hungary)

10:00 - 10:20 / Coffee break

Plasma Physics, High Energy Physics Division, Inertial Confinement Fusion

10:20 - 11:20  Laser Plasma Physics Ondrej Klimo (Czech Technical University-Czech Republic)

11:20 - 12:20  Planetary astrophysics Michel Koenig (LULI, CNRS-France)

12:20 - 13:30 / Lunch break

13:30 - 14:30 Magnetized plasmas Chikang Li (MIT-USA)

14:30 - 14:45 / Break

14:45 - 15:45 Inertial Confinement Fusion Laurent Masse (CEA-France)

15:45 - 16:15 ELI instrumentation for HEDP Michael Ehret (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

16:15 - 17:45 Laboratory tours

19:00   Speakers dinner

Wednesday - August 27, 2025

Nuclear Physics, Particle acceleration, Biological and Medical applications

9:00 - 9:45 Nuclear Physics, educational talk

9:45 - 10:30 High-field physics and Compton source Petru Genuche (ELI NP-Romania)

10:30-11:00/ Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45  Ion acceleration

11:45 - 12:35 Laser Plasma based Nuclear Reactions and Plasma Diagnostics Daniele Margarone (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

12:35 - 14:00 / Lunch break

14:00 - 14:45 Medical applications and capabilities at ELI  Katalin Hideghety (ELI ERIC, ALPS facility-Hungary)

14:45 - 15:35 Laser Wakefield Acceleration Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science-Israel & ELI NP- Romania)

15:35 - 16:15 ELI electron acceleration technology Gabriele Grittani (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

16:15 - 17:45 Laboratory tours / coffee break

17:45 - 20:00 Poster session (ELI-barn)

Thursday - August 28, 2025

Space applications, Hard X-ray science

9:00 - 9:45 Space applications

9:45 - 10:30 Space applications Bernd Abel (Leipzig University-Germany)

10:30 - 11:00/ Coffee break

11:00 - 11:50  Hard X-ray sources  Jens Uhlig (Lund University-Sweden)

11:50 - 12:30 ELI technologies - hard X-ray sources  Jaroslav Nejdl (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

12:30-14:00 / Lunch break

14:00 - 17:00 Hands-On activities

19:00  Gala dinner

Friday - August 29, 2025

Gas phase science

9:00 - 9:45 Quantum aspects of harmonic (attosecond) pulses Hamed Merdji (Ecole Polytechnique-France)

9:45 - 10:30 Plasma physics in mesoscopic systems Maria Krikunova (Technische Hochschule Wildau-Germany)

10:30 - 11:00/ Coffee break

Molecular dynamics in liquids

11:00 - 11:45 Liquid phase  Hans Jakob Wörner (ETH Zürich-Switzerland)

11:45 - 12:30 Biomolecular dynamics over 12 orders of magnitude in time scales; from femtosecond to milliseconds Antonin Vlcek (Queen Mary University of London-UK/Czech Academy of Sciences)

12:30 - 14:00 / Lunch break

Material and surface science

13:45 - 14:30 Dynamics and function in organic and inorganic semiconductors

14:30 - 15:15 Surface science using nanoESCA Benjamin Stadtmueller (University of Augsburg- Germany)

15:15 - 15:30 Closure